LED STREET LIGHT

Driven by the promise of significant energy and maintenance savings provided by Light
Emitting Diode (LED) technology, many cities are struggling with effectively implementing
LED’s in their street lighting. There still remains much confusion and misinformation pertaining
to this technology. Furthermore much of the available literature is written in highly scientific
jargon targeting an academic audience.

While the potential exists for additional energy savings from the control systems offered by
several manufacturers, there is currently no industry standard communication protocol for
these systems. Consequently the street lighting control systems on the market today are
proprietary and most municipalities have been reluctant to risk standardizing on any of these
systems
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Also, these systems currently add an additional level of complexity and cost to the
street lighting system. Because of these critical issues, we have not yet seen widespread
adoption of these systems in the market and therefore controls/monitoring systems are not
included in this guide. .